[Ipg-smz] How Apple got the appstore.com URL ...

[Tom Henderson]

When Benioff was at Oracle, he brought out the first Oracle on desktops 
on Apple, then UnixWare as owned by Novell (at the time). He's always 
been an Apple admirer.

Tom


On 5/29/19 1:29 PM, David Needle wrote:
> Well here's a bit of computer history I never heard before ...
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> At the Salesforce Trailhead conference in SF this morning, Salesforce 
> cofounder Parker Harris was giving a bit of company history and 
> mentioned in passing how the company had the idea for an app store 
> many years ago and created an app store with the appstore.com 
> <http://appstore.com> URL,  "but we nicely gave it to Steve Jobs at 
> Apple to use." That's why Salesforce's app store is called AppExchange.
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> He said it was an interesting story for another time. Wow. I suspect 
> Salesforce wishes it kept the name
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